His archives find a home in a city with no real ties to the musician.
. For an oilman, Kaiser is a fairly outspoken supporter of liberal interests. He has led multiple efforts to reimagine the city as far-removed from one of the country’s most notorious chapters — the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
“All those early songs were almost magically written,” Dylan says. “Ah … ‘Darkness at the break of noon, shadows even the silver spoon, a handmade blade, the child’s balloon.’ … Well, try to sit down and write something like that.” The Bob Dylan Center has an abundance of culturally historic details such as this sprinkled throughout its $20 million collection. While Dylan is not for everyone — every would-be music critic has made a crack about his singing ability or the coarseness evident in hisA visitor watches archival footage of Bob Dylan at the singer's new museum in Tulsa.